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How to use watchful in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word watchful? Here are some examples.

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As I enjoy my vermicelli under the watchful eyes of smiling Buddha, I notice that Wan Ker-sin is swallowing, instead of chewing his food.
Police officers in small groups stood around keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings, an unobtrusive presence.
People living in the area are having their cars targeted over and over again, despite being under the watchful eye of the police.
Sir Titus Salt kept a watchful eye over a panel of beer tasters judging a competition to recreate a brew in his honour yesterday.
Lay the tiles row by row, always keeping a watchful eye for correct alignment along the working lines.
Litus had waited for a long time, waiting for one of the two to return, to relieve him from his watchful duties.
Rosalind was the last to remain in the courtroom, watchful and concerned for her son.
Be watchful for later jackets on the Booker winner with flashes advertising the prize.
The laboratory ran like clockwork and he kept a watchful eye on the welfare of his staff.
But even with their protected status and the watchful eye of tourism officials, they are at risk to poachers.
The tank is therefore cleaned daily by a stream of divers, mostly volunteers, under the watchful eye of the North Rock aquarist.
Under the watchful gaze of roaming goats and camels we opened presents early in the morning under the one lone tree further inland.
The photography, buttressed by watchful blocking and acting, invites careful consideration of the calamity as opposed to tantalization.
As the tarantass nears the wattled corral, the watchful ravens stir from their perches.
Under the watchful eyes of promoters and fans, she moved nimbly around semifinal competitor Stephanie Thomas and scouted for an opening.
A young curate has moved to his first parish and is living under the watchful eye of his matriarchal landlady at the instruction of the vicar.
I felt the panic of his watchful father, but I was mesmerized by his youthful passion.
Now, all it takes is a watchful sanitation worker to slap a fine on the offender.
But those watchful, pale-blue eyes and the tufty chevrons that punctuate their brows are easier to spot.
When I looked out of the kitchen window these two were casting a watchful eye over the boys' activities.
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He was alertly watchful for any quick thrust that might find him off guard.
Meanwhile, we trust that a watchful eye will be kept upon the angelic footmen and archangelic coachman.
Laudanum would settle the present ataxy of her animal spirits, and prevent her being too watchful.
Robert's suspicions were lulled to sleep, and he ceased to be as vigilant and watchful as he had been.
Old entellus stands immoveable and astrain, only parrying hits with body and watchful eye.
And ever entellus abode in the same place, swaying himself hither and thither with watchful eyes.
He turns to expectorate, sweeping the large shop with a quick, watchful eye.
Ben being a field hand was busily employed picking cotton, with a prayerful heart, and a watchful eye on Wilson.
When he reached forty-second Street he could see the sullen, watchful groups of men.
The fur seal and sea otter are so nearly gone that only the most watchful protection will save them from extinction.
At the Admiral's command the harquebus and crossbow men laid their weapons down, though watchful eye was kept.
Mr. snape had taken the tiller, and Noll stood leaning over the rail by him, eager and watchful for the first look at Culm.
Like some horrendous, watchful gargoyle, the Nipe crouched motionlessly on the shadowed roof of the low building.
Like the watchful Levite of old, be a guardian at the temple-gates of your own soul.
I returned to lay our first-fruits at madams feet, he explained, his darkly watchful eyes upon us both.
He sat there unblenched and apparently unmoved, though it was plain that he was intensely watchful and ready.
But now I noticed that the pseudo-bandits wore a watchful and not unhopeful air.
Soon his muscles relaxed, and all his senses rested, watchful but unstrained.
This emphatic word has not escaped the watchful eye of Dr. Warton, who has placed a nota bene at it.
And he rode thus into rai Bareilly, watchful, determined, ready for any emergency.
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